Businesspersons from Russian Astrakhan and Iran's Northern Gilan Province were present in the ceremony, IRNA reported.
'We hope good contracts will be signed in the course of the exhibition,' he said.
Managing Director of Anzali Free Trade Zone Organization Reza Masroor told IRNA on Tuesday that Russia is a suitable market for marketing of Iranian products and “as government representatives we should prepare the ground for further exchange of experience and engagement of Iranian and Russian traders'.
He said, “The Russian senior delegation was proposed to hold at least four exclusive trade fairs in Iran and Russia so as to raise volume of transactions to $10 billion in three years from present two billion dollars.”
A group of 26 companies from southern Russian provinces and 50 companies from Iranian provinces of Gilan, Mazandaran, Golestan, Ardebil and Semnan will be present in the three-day expo.
EghtesadOnline: Iran-Russia Trade Exhibition opened in Anzali Free Trade Zone on Tuesday, attended by high-ranking Russian delegation and certain Iranian senior directors.